Benoit Faucon

The Navy is gone.

The Air Force is gone.

Everything's gone and they're negotiating on fumes.

Their money has no value.

Their whole economic system is broken down.

They thought they were going to outweigh me.

We'll outweigh him.

He's got the midterms.

I don't care about the midterms.

Look what happened last night.

It did work.

What is really paradoxical is that during the war, where you basically had Iran receiving massive bombings, that period actually was not as damaging for the Iranian economy because all exports continued almost unchanged.

The US blockade on Iran ports is a very different story.

It really started to damage the Iranian economy in a much deeper way.

Everything that Iranians buy, especially imported goods, are much more expensive.

Rice prices, Iranian officials tell me, you know, have increased by either 100% or 200%, depending on the categories, because of the U.S.

blockade.

Iran is even more under pressure to find economic relief.

They're not getting any substantial revenue.

So you do have a situation where it's more pressing now for Iran to get a deal that starts with the end of the U.S.